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WAKULLA with great distinction. From 1835 to 1852 ho was a member of parliament. WAKULLA, a N. county of Florida, bordering on Appalachee bay, bounded W. by the Ock- lockonee river, and E. by St. Mark's river ; area, 504 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 2,506, of whom 944 were colored. The surface is generally level and the soil fertile. It is intersected by a branch of the Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Mo- bile railroad. The chief productions in 1870 were 47,274 bushels of Indian corn, 8,726 of sweet potatoes, 2,800 Ibs. of rice, 258 bales of cotton, 34 hogsheads of sugar, and 10,727 gallons of molasses. There were 184 horses, 1,617 milch cows, 2,605 other cattle, 299 sheep, and 3,800 swine. Capital, Crawfordville. WALCHEREN, the westernmost island of the Netherlands, in the province of Zealand, in lat. 51 30' K, Ion.. 3 30' E., between the E. and W. mouths of the Scheldt; area, about 100 sq. m.; pop. about 40,000. It is surrounded by dikes, and is very fertile. The chief towns are Middelburg and Flushing (Vliessingen), the latter fortified. The Walcheren expedition of England against Napoleon, planned in 1807 by her continental allies, reached the Dutch coast only after many delays at the end of July, 1809; it consisted of 175 armed vessels and 41,000 soldiers. Lord Chatham, its chief com- mander, lost his time in the reduction of Flush- ing, which was not effected till Aug. 16, An- twerp, which had been intended as the main point of attack, being in the mean time reen- forced and protected by Bernadotte. About 7,000 men died of malaria at Middelburg, and the island was finally evacuated before the end of the year. WALCKENAER, Charles Athanase, baron, a French author, born in Paris, Dec. 25, 1771, died there, April 27, 1852. Pie studied at Glasgow and Oxford ; served as director of transportation in the army of the Pyrenees in 1793 ; after- ward studied in the polytechnic school; and became a mayor of Paris in 1816, and prefect of the department of Nievre in 1824 and of Aisne in 1826. In 1830 he finally left the public service, and in 1840 became perpetual secretary of the academy of inscriptions. He published Essai sur Vhistoire de Vespece Jiu- maine (1798) ; Histoire abregee des insectes des environs de Paris (1802) ; Tableau des araneides (1805) ; Le monde maritime (4 vols. 8vo, 1818) ; Nouvelle collection des relations de voyage (21 vols., 1826-'31); Analyse geographique des itine- raires des anciens, &c. (3 vols. 8vo, 1839) ; His- toire de la me et des poesies d* Horace (1840) ; and Memoires sur Madame de Sevigne (5 vols., 1842-'52, incomplete). A collection of his more important works has been published un- der the title (Euvres choisies (Paris, 1862 et seq.}. WALDECK, a principality in N. W. Germany, embracing Waldeck proper, which is situated between the Prussian provinces of Hesse-Nas- sau and Westphalia, and the county of Pyr- mont, between Lippe-Detmold, Brunswick, and the Prussian provinces of Westphalia and Han- WALDECK 423 over; total area, 438 sq. m. ; pop. in 1871, 56,- 224, of whom 49,136 were in Waldeck and the rest in Pyrmont, and chiefly Protestants. Wal- deck proper is mountainous and woody, drained by the Eder and other small tributaries of the Weser, and possessing a poor and stony but care- fully cultivated soil, and yields sufficient grain and potatoes for home consumption. Large flocks of sheep producing fine wool are raised, and butter and cheese are exported. There are mines of iron and copper, marble and ala- baster quarries, and salt springs. Pyrmont con- sists of a small valley watered by the Emmer, and tolerably productive, but is principally noteworthy for the mineral springs at the fash- ionable watering place of that name. Waldeck is a constitutional principality, its present con- stitution dating from 1852. It has been since Jan. 1, 1868, under Prussian administration, to continue for a term of ten years, in accord- ance with the treaty of "accession" concluded July 18, 1867, and ratified by the principality on Oct. 22. The executive power is vested in the prince alone ; the legislature consists of a single chamber of 15 members. Its revenue and expenditures were each estimated in 1875 at 1,571,690 marks; more than half of the to- tal revenue is absorbed by the civil list of the reigning prince, George Victor (born Jan. 14, 1831). The public debt amounted in 1875 to 2,596,800 marks. The paper money (630,000 marks) was in process of withdrawal from cir- culation. The diet meets annually at Arolsen, the residence of the prince. The princes of Waldeck trace their origin to Witikind. They were originally counts, but became princes in 1682. GEORGE FREDERICK (1664-'92) took ser- vice under the emperor Leopold I. in Hol- land, who made him prince of the empire and field marshal. He commanded the Franconian troops at the siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1683. Eeturning to Holland, he was appointed marshal general of the army of the United Prov- inces, and was defeated by Marshal Luxem- bourg at the battle of Fleurus in 1690. CHRIS- TIAN AUGUSTUS (born in 1744, died near Lisbon in 1798) early entered the service of Austria, rose rapidly in the army, distinguished himself against the Turks, was appointed lieutenant general in the war against France in 1792, lost an arm at the siege of Thionville, took part in 1793 in the attack on the lines of Weissenburg, and captured Fort Louis. In 1794 he became quartermaster general of Flanders, and in 1797 chief commander of the Portuguese army. WALDECK, Jean Frederic de, baron, a French artist, born in Paris, March 16, 1766, died there, April 30, 1875. He early visited South Africa, and subsequently went with the army to Italy and Egypt. He made archaeological explorations in Chili and Guatemala in 1819, and long resided in Mexico. The French gov- ernment in 1826 granted him a pension of 2,000 francs. In the last 40 years of his life he lived in Paris, and he retained his mental powers to the end. He published Voyage or-